A Puppetry major …

The University of Connecticut is setting up a special section in its dorms exclusively for black males. The big idea is that black males don’t do as well at UConn because they are dispersed across the general student population. That keeps them from getting the support they need from other black male students. Grouping them together supposedly will solve this. 

The plan was immediately attacked by black female students at UConn who wondered why only black males got their own separate section in a dorm. If black males got this, why shouldn’t black females also be entitled to the same? Other non-black students on the UConn campus seemed somewhat divided in their opinions. 

Now, I’m reading all this and can’t believe the sheer stupidity and hypocrisy of some college administration actively promoting segregation on a modern campus as a solution to poor performance among black males. If this were happening at a Southern school – there would be pickets and news crews around the clock.  How more insane can this get, I’m thinking. 

And then, near the end of the same article I see something that trumps all.  There’s a quote from some student that anyone opposed to this plan is simply a racist. 

He or she is identified as a “Puppetry major” at UConn.   

Seriously.  A Puppetry major. You can actually major in Puppetry at UConn.  Who knew?

UConn estimates annual costs – tuition and expenses – at a bit more than $25,000 for in-state students. You could easily spend $100,000 over four years and come out with a major in puppetry.  Which, I suppose, would qualify you for … what?  Is there a decent-paying entry-level job that might help a puppetry major pay that debt off? What are the upside career prospects for advancing in the field of professional puppetry?  Does that field even exist?  

In one article you can see the absolute insanity of today’s higher education system. Administrators protecting black male students from the very integration their grandparents fought and bled for.  Outrage by one group over special treatment given to another group but not to them.  Students majoring in subjects – like puppetry – that for most will never, ever yield jobs with incomes sufficient to pay off their college debt.   

Then you have Bernie Sanders and Hillary promising free tuition and elimination of college debt to woo the college-age voters and their parents. It's not surprising that a fairly large part of the voting public is eating this up.  

It’s just nuts. People wonder why today's college students aren't prepared for the real world. Or why they can't find good jobs once they graduate. 

Wonder no more.  All the answers were in the article I'm referencing.     

Someone posted an Internet meme the other day that  said, in essence, if you want to solve income inequality try majoring in engineering instead of feminist dance therapy. 

Or, I would add, Puppetry.